£44m David Villa Chelsea bid turned down
By dixon9
April 19 2009
The Guardian is claiming today that Chelsea had a bid for Valencia’s David Villa turned down a fortnight ago. If true, this would further demonstrate the clubs philosophy of lashing out only if the right player is available with Alves and Robinho being the subject of previous substantial bids.
The €50m bid was not enough to tempt Valencia who have grave financial problems at the moment due to the building of a new stadium which began just before the start of the recession. This situation has been further heightened by low offers for the land which the current Mestalla stadium occupies.“Los Ché´s” have debts of well over €400m and had to take out a €50m loan from a construction company to pay a squad of players that had gone some months without receiving their salaries.
Villa and Silva could be offloaded but transfer income of around €70m would do little to resolve the current economic situation and would leave the side severely weakened next season.
Villa obviously has the quality required although he is nowhere near as effective when isolated or in a 4-3-3.
The Valencian striker has also gone on record that he is not that keen on moving away from Spain. If he did come to Stamford Bridge but had difficulty in adapting to English culture the effects could be extremely negative.
Ancelotti and Rijkaard are also mentioned in reports with the Dutchman’s agent, Perry Overeem commenting:
"Would he consider the job?"
"Of course, he would consider any serious job. But neither he nor I have been contacted."
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if agreed then arsenal fans will come up with 10 million pounds to that transfer fee
"It is born out of hypocrisy and fundamental insecurity. There have been two kids on the block for the past 12 years. Suddenly, there is a third and that one is threatening to be more successful than the others and they don’t like it." P Kenyon.